The role of German actors in European colonialisms, especially before the foundation of the German nation state in 1871 and Germany’s entry into imperialism proper with the so-called protectorates of 1884/85, is a contested...
The explorer Ludwig Leichhardt (*1813 in Trebatsch – †1848? in Central Australia) is a colonial figure shared by Germany and Australia alike. After a successful expedition together with a party of Indigenous and non-Indigenous...
Recent years have seen a growing interest among museum practitioners, as well as the greater German public, in the history of objects acquired in colonial contexts. This turn to colonial objects forms part of...
What kind of knowledge do we have to define in order to initiate a decolonial university? In her contribution to the “Pluralising Practices” debate, Katrin Köppert takes this question as a starting point to discuss the project “DE_colonize...
After the interrogation of pluralising activist and artistic practices, Hongwei Bao cautions against an uncritical celebration of pluralising practices without taking into consideration its neoliberal conditions for both academics and cultural workers in his...
criticalhabitations opens the third debate on: pluralising practices. Introduced by the editors of critical habitations, the debate features contributions by Anna Artaker, who describes her artistic practice which transforms Walter Benjamin’s concept of the...
Rencontres Improbables (The Secret Encounters Of Kusama Kalthoum) kuratiert von Jayce Salloum und Mireille Kassar 3. September 2016 bis 1. Oktober 2016 Eröffnung | Samstag 3. September 2016 | 19 Uhr Walaa Al Alawi, Syria/ Jordan | Tina-Maria...
Contemporary cities generate waste of various kinds on a scale that is often difficult to imagine and comprehend. Yet cities are also key sites for innovative practices of reuse, recycling and re-purposing. Through such...
criticalhabitations opens the second debate on: the posthuman present. Introduced by Alexander Dunst, the debate features contributions by James Burton who returns to the writing of Philip K. Dick to question our understanding of...
We’re happy to announce our third workshop which will take place at the University of Arts and Design, Linz, Austria, June 1st-3rd 2016. Over the last two decades, increasingly diverse intellectual practices have become...
The criticalhabitations project and blog was active from 2012 to 2022. We are currently on an indefinite hiatus and do not post or seek new content. This blog remains online as a documentation of our activities and the texts of our collaborators. Thank you for your interest in our work.
Since its emergence cultural studies has been concerned with the historical materiality of particular moments, places and conjunctures. This blog serves as a platform of exchange among practitioners of cultural studies, who – as researchers, teachers, activists – remain committed to cultural studies’ focus on a specific here and now, a concrete time and place.
Our blog takes as its starting point the notion of habitation. How do we dwell in the traditions of cultural studies in our diverse locations? Have some of our categories of analysis and terms of engagements become mere habits? Is cultural studies a space of dissent, or a homely space? For whom?